Florence

This stop will show how the reading of Dante changed from a private matter into a public practice funded by the city.

The baptismal church will connect an exile’s personal fate with the right to call oneself Florentine.

Here the route's central conflict emerges: the city will condemn the poet, then later return his image to the same palace.

The basilica will show how family memory was built into the regular routine of a working church.

Here, two attempts to return Florence’s great exiles will converge—one through a body, the other through a monument.

Surviving towers and new walls make it possible to see what was preserved and what was sacrificed in the reconstruction.

This stop will show why a public attack did not bring the conspirators power over the city.

The frescoes show what happened to a family commission after its patron was exiled.

Here you will see how the municipal government created a physical address for memory when the evidence was insufficient.

The arcade will show how a place for republican ceremonies became a backdrop for ducal power.

Here, a family commission will collide with an artist's political choice and remain unfinished.

This stop traces the path of the family manuscripts from confiscation to a public reading room.

The final stop will show how urban redevelopment changed the familiar routes of sellers and buyers.

This stop shifts the scale: from a civic sentence to helping a single family without public humiliation.

The former market shows how wills made after the plague changed the purpose of an entire building.

From the facade, you can reconstruct the courtly calculation that tied together two families and one house.

This is where the story begins of a power that needed an impressive but politically safe address.

Here it will become clear what price private owners could pay for the expansion of the shared urban center.

The square will help you see how the crowd's trust turned into political power and vanished in a single day.

This small square gives the neighborhood a memory that arose not from a title or monument, but from the way a woman of the city was addressed.

The square will add the action of a living city to the theme of memory: a public game during the siege.

The open space will explain why a medieval order needed the city’s largest site.

The central part of the facade shows where the first owner’s ambition ended and the Medici residence began.

The final stop explains why jewelry trading took hold above the old meat market.

This is where the story begins of how the Medici route changed ordinary city life.

A comparison of the facade and interior will show which parts of Brunelleschi’s project his successors preserved.

The finale shifts the theme of inheritance from memorials to a workshop where a craft is passed on within a working production facility.

Here it becomes clear why the duke needed to gather the institutions of a republican city near the palace.

The notaries’ house will link the power of the written word to a posthumous gallery of poets.